22nd -29th Feb On Tuesday 22nd I travelled the 3 hours along the coast to Trujillo and then out to the beach town of Huanchaco. There were ruins to visit nearby and it had been recommended. In my first few days there I spent quite a lot of time looking at options for getting south to Patagonia, eventually buying a flight as the money for the flight would be money well spent because otherwise the north to south of Chile journey would take at least 4 days and nigh...

I managed to get to the beach in Mancora on Sunday for a few hours as I was feeling better :- ) I also changed my mind about my next stop which was going to be straight to another beach town but decided to stop off in a place called Chiclayo to visit some nearby archaeological sites. Bus to get there took about 6 hours. The place I picked out of the LP turned out to not be the best option- hard mattress (definitely the worst bed I had had so far!) and very hot ro...

Well, where to start when I am over a month behind writing my blog??!! I guess I'll start with where I am and work my way backwards. Trouble when you get more and more behind it becomes a bigger and bigger task and you start to forget things too, not ideal when this is my journal too. I shall do my best to remember but expect I'll end up missing out the little things that at the time I would have thought "must remember this"! Anyway, not much interest...

We had Thursday afternoon back in Lima before our final evening out. The whole group went out a for a meal, which was really nice, but the service was awful...sooooo slow! By the time we had finished and paid it was 11pm! The majority of the group then went bowling, but Anne-Marie and I didn't fancy it so we went to a nearby bar with Renzo, our guide, and Ron, one of the dutch guys. They had a band on, who were clearly good as everyone seemed to love it and the w...

Early on Tuesday 25th we headed to the airport in Cuzco to take a flight to Puerto Maldonaldo in order to go to the Amazon rainforest for our last few days. The journey from Cuzco to our lodge used various forms of transport- bus, plane, bus, boat, walk, boat....after a brief stop at the lodge's office in Puerto Maldonaldo in order to pack small bags for the few days in the jungle it took about 2.5 hours to get to the lodge. We had to walk about 45 minutes to an ...